The FBI has released new numbers that show violent crime in Detroit has spiked more than 15 percent in 2016.

Reports of violent crime increased in Niagara County by 9 percent, where the overall crime rate also grew by 4 percent, according to the News' analysis. And while there are many theories (paywall) as to why the U.S. has seen this rise in violence, one data point is pretty clear: The increase in murder rates is mostly concentrated in several big cities-with Chicago accounting for about one-fifth of the rise between 2015 and 2016.

"For the sake of all Americans, we must confront and turn back the rising tide of violent crime".

While the violent crime rate remains at near historic levels, the increases come as Attorney General Jeff Sessions has warned of an impending crime surge and launched programs meant to target gangs and the drug trade as a way to stem the uptick.

Adam Gelb, director of the Public Safety Performance Project at the Pew Charitable Trusts, pointed out that only five years since 1971 have had lower violent crime rates than 2016. For example, violent crime rose 32.4% in Vermont and fell 5.3% in Florida.

"False narratives about a national crime wave will not help. At the same time, other cities like NY are keeping crime down".

The increase was driven by an uptick in several major cities, including Chicago, Baltimore and Las Vegas. "Rapes and robberies were down in a majority of big cities from the same period a year ago, too".

John Pfaff, a Fordham University law professor and economist, says about 20 percent of the national homicide increase was just in the city of Chicago. "Five neighborhoods in Chicago explain 10% of the national increase in homicide rates".

The group's data included cities with dramatic increases, such as Chicago, which had 762 homicides in 2016, up from 482 homicides a year earlier; Phoenix, which saw 146 homicides, up from 113 the year before; and Louisville, which had 117 homicides, up from 80 in 2015.

Since the early 1990s, as the U.S. population has grown, murders have dropped to about 14,000 a year. In 2015, 484 violent crimes were recorded while 538 violent crimes were noted in the report for 2016. Cities including Portland and Minneapolis reported fewer homicides past year as well. A few thousand law enforcement jurisdictions do not report their data to federal authorities each year.

The number of reported aggravated assaults fell by 58, from 1,031 to 973.

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Wentz also got back to scrambling, elusively scampering for a first down in the red zone to help set up a Blount one-yard score. Given that McAdoo will continue calling plays on Sunday, the "drastic" changes he alluded to will have to come from elsewhere.

Chris Lattner, Tesla's vice president of Autopilot software, left the company in June after just six months at the helm. Reports began to surface that Tesla is, in fact, working with AMD to develop an AI chip for their autonomous driving.

Crouch is ungainly, awkward and not very easy on the eye, but he is effective and Stoke probably need to use him more often. With or without him, Chelsea has so many options up front that the former champions are expected to take the initiative.

However, he says striker Danny Welbeck is still expected to be out of action until after the next worldwide break. YOU can watch the game on Sky Sports Premier League channel, with coverage starting at 7pm.

And Thibaut Courtois' tweet from September 1 suggests Chelsea's players were beginning to believe Costa could stay, too. Costa's last game for Chelsea was May's FA Cup final loss to Arsenal when he scored the last of his 59 goals .

If you want to use two apps at once but don't want the Slide Over panel to cover any information, you can move to Split View. The new iOS 11 came with some major and noticeable improvements to allow the iPhone and iPad users to enjoy it extensively.

The youngest Kardashian-Jenner sister is expecting a child with boyfriend Travis Scott , TMZ reported on Saturday. The event went down during September 8-10, and Kylie's current boyfriend, Travis Scott , was part of the line-up.

But then Moeen, dropped by Gayle at point on 87, switched gear dramatically as England piled up 123 runs in the last 10 overs. He eventually holed out off spinner Ashley Nurse and walked off to a standing ovation from a near-capacity crowd.

Collins said sponsors were making last-minute adjustments in the measure's formulas for distributing federal money to states. McCain was the deciding vote in July, his "no" vote scuttling a narrow Obamacare repeal bill that McConnell had offered.

At 9.52 am, Sensex was down 225.96 points on 32,144.08 and Nifty was trading at 10,037.80, down 84.10 points. According to the provisional data, FPIs offloaded equities worth Rs 1,241.73 crore.

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